Wednesday, January 06, 2016

The New York Timesreports
that many of the suckers healthy people who were supposed to
prop up ObamaCare are crunching the numbers and choosing to remain
without what
leftists call health insurance:

[P]lenty of healthy
holdouts remain, and their resistance helps explain why insurers are
worried about the financial viability of the exchanges over time. They
say they sorely need more healthy customers to balance out the costs
of covering the sicker, older people who have flocked to exchange
plans.

...

Many holdouts have made their
decisions after meticulously comparing the cost of insurance premiums
and deductibles with paying for doctor appointments, lab tests and
prescriptions themselves. For some healthy people, the combined cost
of premiums and deductibles, which can exceed $10,000, makes the
penalty seem a better deal.

For 2016 and beyond, the
penalty will be $695 per adult or 2.5 percent of household income, up
from $325 per adult or 2 percent of household income last
year.

Interestingly, few of the people in the story seem
to have heard about some of the better options (outside the
federally-run "insurance" scheme), such as concierge
medicine, and the story makes it sound like they are taking a
gamble. (And I imagine many are: The government running everything has
a way of shriveling imaginations and causing people to assume that
other alternatives aren't available.)

We ought to do
something about this sad state of affairs: We should scrap the ACA and
make actual health insurance legal again.